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Found plastic pipe, horn hand made from melted HDPE milk bottles and bottle tops.

An invitation to sing a duet with the Craigs at Dumbarton.

Serenading a Rock, 2017

Installed at John Sommers Gallery as part of the Land Arts of the American West group show in Albuquerque.

Karaoke videos featured:

https://vimeo.com/269697150

https://vimeo.com/269478197

https://vimeo.com/253449360

After the exhibition, the rock was sent back to Patagonia in Arizona, where we had spent a week working with the Borderlands Restoration team, making rock dams. They took the rock to karaoke night at the local bar, The Wagon Wheel.

Becoming A Grain of Sand, 2017

Collaborating with a sand storm that rolled in whilst camping in the dunes at White Sands, New Mexico on the Land Arts of the American West programme.

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Rock Ice Cream Parlour, 2017

Raspberry Ripple, Mango Sorbet, Flake.

Turkey Creek, New Mexico.

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Singing To The Cave, 2017

Experiments in communicating with rocks in the Four Corners Region as part of the Land Arts of the American West programme at the University of New Mexico.

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Synchronised swimming with myself in a hot spring in Turkey Creek, New Mexico

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Got Any Gum? 2017

Play-Doh, Exercise Ball, Corrugated Plastic Roofing, Rubber Bands, Sandwich Bags

Interactive Installation outside SubClub

Viewers were invited to swap their shoes for sandwich bags and step into a world of giant Play-Doh chewing gum blobs.

Instructions For a Walk 2016

Set an alarm for every 2 minutes. Pick a card at random and follow the instruction until the alarm sounds for your next instruction.

A game designed to be carried around like a keyring and taken out whenever you are in need of a tiny adventure.

A Place In The Sun, 2016

The first of a series of escapist works curated by Tilly Heydon, based around the false window in her Dennistoun tennement kitchen. I transformed the window into a mini cinema to show the karaoke videos celebrating the mundane and the fun to be found in everyday life, turning the kitchen table into a karaoke booth.

Part of a series found on https://vimeo.com/user39247587

‘There Are Too Many Traffic Lights in Ipswich’ 2016

Part of a series found on

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw12AVJuN6-S6rQBLWF3rrQ

An interactive video piece using the Aurasma App imagining a world where traffic signs come alive and instruct you through dance. The video is activated by the image of the road signs in the gallery and works with actual road signs anywhere in the UK.